Farmers in Virginia are receiving emergency disaster relief because of the drought.

Look, it has been dry.

Real dry.

My pastures are short and I’m feeding hay.

I will only break even this year.

But you won’t see me with my hand out asking for tax money.

Why should you all pay higher taxes because my business was not diversified enough to make a profit during entirely predictable periods of dry weather?

Should we also give money to fuel oil companies during unusually warm winters?

How about giving money to lemonade stands during cold snaps?

For a bunch of people who are supposedly rugged indiviodualists, my fellow farmers sure are a bunch of welfare queens.

I’m just sayin’.